Monday, December 31, 2018

2019 DIVERSITY READING CHALLENGE

The Platypire Diversity challenge won't be offered next year, so the Celebrity Readers page is now hosting a similar challenge. I plan to complete all 12 monthly themes and try to read as many LGBTQ+ books for the summer as possible.



JANUARY – diverse folktales/culture/mythology; or diverse retelling; or non-western setting:

FEBRUARY – poc: Black/African American: Not Without Laughter--Langston Hughes

MARCH – #ownvoices; or gender: female authors in male-dominated genres/non-fiction:
Hidden Figures--Margot Lee Shetterly


JUNE – LGBT+ pride summer: sexuality and gender identity: On a Sunbeam--Tillie Walden

JULY – LGBT+ pride summer: sexuality and gender identitySam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah--Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

AUGUST – mental health/addiction: Marcelo in the Real World--Francisco X. Stork

SEPTEMBER – poc: hispanic/latinx: These Are Not Sweet Girls--Marjorie Agosin (ed.)

OCTOBER – physical/sensory/cognitive/intellectual/developmental disabilities:
An Unquiet Mind--Kay Redfield Jamison

NOVEMBER – poc: Native American: Night Flying Woman--Igantia Booker
There’s sort of an extra level to the LGBT+ pride summer in June and July — aim to check off as many letters in LGBTQQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual) as possible!
Challenge completed on December 1

3 comments:

Elephant's Child said...

Hooray for celebrating diversity - which enriches all of our lives.

Lenore said...

Yay!! So glad you're joining us in our challenge!! I'm busy trying to figure out which books will fit for January! :)

Curly Carla said...

Good luck on the challenge. I love to do them but I mostly fail at completing them.